Methos quotes from Highlander: The Series

Methos

You think I wanna die? Do you think it's easy after thousands of years?

Methos

Live, Highlander. Grow stronger...fight another day.

Methos

Well. Life as we know it is over.

Methos

You understand nothing. Three weeks ago, we were standing on a beach on Santorini, watching the sun rise on the Mediterranean. Now she is lying in a hospital in Switzerland breathing through a tube! ... You think it takes courage to do what we do? Face another Immortal with a sword, knowing only one of you will live? You try being her! You try living one year, knowing that your time is running out. Knowing that when it comes to the final fight, however much you train, whatever tricks you have, you still lose! That's the way it is for them. So little time for them to see anything or do anything.

Duncan

Five thousand years.

Methos

Yeah, give or take. And that was when I took my first head. Before that, it all starts to blur.

Duncan

I guess it would. So, after all this time, have You... ?

Methos

Made any sense of it all? Found any purpose?

Duncan

You read minds, too?

Methos

No. It's what I'd ask if I'd just met me.

Duncan

Somehow I thought you'd be...

Methos

Deeper? Wiser? Bearded?

Duncan

I didn't really think you existed.

Methos

Ah, it's good to be a myth.

Duncan

Yeah, no one hunts for a myth. Or a Watcher.

Methos

What better place to hide? I'm in charge of finding myself...and I make sure it never happens.

Methos

You think I'd still be around if I was an easy mark?

Duncan

When was the last time you faced anyone?

Methos

What are we? [checking his watch] Sixth of March, uh, two hundred years. Hey, I may be a bit rusty but I'm still here.

Duncan

So after five thousand years, your only solution is that I kill you?

Methos

He can beat me. He might beat you. He can't beat both of US.

Duncan

If it's that simple, why don't you take my head?

Methos

'Cause it's not just a matter of who is the best fighter. It is about passion and hate. I don't have the fire. You do. You want Kalas.

Joe

That went well. What the hell were you thinking of?

Methos

I wasn't thinking, I was improvising.

Joe

By cutting yourself open? And it took you five thousand years to figure that out.

Methos

You're disappointed in me, aren't you? Gimme a break. What were you expecting? Einstein? Freud? Buddha?

Joe

Forget it.

Methos

Sorry, Joe. I'm just a guy.

Methos

I've got a lot to offer. Five thousand years of history, Joe...I was there.

Joe

History's been written. People have been known to kill the messenger who waltzes in with a new version of the truth.

Methos

Why would I tell the truth?

Methos

I was in Rome once. 93 A.D., the Coliseum... I saw Christians facing the lions. Some of them looked almost happy to die for their faith.

Duncan

Your point? Or are you just strolling down Memory Lane here?

Methos

But afterwards, the only ones looking happy were the lions

Duncan

This isn't about faith.

Methos

No, it's about sacrifice. It's a helluva thing to be a martyr, MacLeod... And that's exactly what Kalas wants. He's pushing all your buttons.

Duncan

Well, I'm open to suggestions. Enlighten me.

Methos

Maybe Amanda's right. You fight your best fight.

Duncan

[sarcastic] What? Every man for himself and to hell with the rest?

Methos

So what if the world finds out? Life's about change. Civilizations rise and fall.

Duncan

This isn't about civilization, this is about people! Amanda, Dawson, Richie... Our world isn't an ant farm.

Methos

[with a touch of admiration and humor] The passion of youth.

Duncan

[with a sense of humor] Boys will be boys.

Methos

And every cloud has a silver lining.

Duncan

What do you mean?

Methos

If you die, Amanda will be free to date.

Duncan

That's a comfort.

Methos

MacLeod-san, that katana is a lovely piece of art. May I? I washed my hands this morning.

Methos

Ahhh! Quite a blade.

Duncan

Not funny, Methos.

Methos

Not meant to be. Not only are you naive, now you are weaponless. How have you lived this long? Do you know how many Immortals she's killed? Want a list?

Duncan

All right, you've made your point.

Methos

Have I? One day she is going to kill you.

Duncan

She's tried already.

Methos

You're better with a blade than her, yes. You are stronger than her, yes. But if you keep letting her walk away, one day she gets lucky, and takes your head. Yes!

Duncan

Oh, I don't know, maybe she'll start to gloat like you.

Duncan

You wanna play?

Methos

Great, you knock me on my bum because I make a bad joke. Very macho. But you keep letting her walk away, without even taking a shot, that is very suicidal.

Duncan

You know what she was to me.

Methos

Yes, and I know what she is. A killer. You treat her like one.

Methos

A couple of medieval songwriters come up with the idea of chivalry one rainy day...

Duncan

This isn't about chivalry!

Methos

...and you embrace it as a lifestyle. You live and die by a code of honor that was trendy when you were a kid.

Duncan

Would you rather that I had no code of honor at all?

Methos

I would rather you survived. You put that first.

Methos

Pick it up.

Who the hell are you?

Methos

A man who was born long before the age of chivalry. Pick it up.

Methos

Excuse me, if I sat at a table, would you be my waitress?

(to Joe) Is he a good tipper?

Joe Dawson

No.

Alexa

Well. Too bad. Makes up for it in cute, though.

Methos

Cute. I can do cute.